different between bibe vs bibb

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish badhb, a variant of badhbh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Noun

bibe (plural bibes)

1. (Ireland, Newfoundland) A type of banshee whose cry indicates someone's impending death.
   • 1822, "All Hallow Eve in Ireland", in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume IX, No XV, page 257:

     "... But when Jack lies on his low death-bed, with the clammy dews standing on his brow, the moaning bibe combing her yellow locks, and singing the death-wail at his casement, then will this, and all poor Delaney's other actions, appear to his darkening eye in their true colours."

   • 2006, Coralie Hughes Jensen, Lety's Gift:

     Sophie's face grew serious. "Not the bibe. She comes when we dies."

References

• "bibe" in Story et al. Dictionary of Newfoundland English Second Edition with supplement, (Toronto, 1990)

Interlingua

Verb

bibe

1. present of biber
2. imperative of biber

Irish

Alternative forms

• bib

Etymology

Borrowed from English bib.

Noun

bibe m (genitive singular bibe, nominative plural bibí)

1. bib; apron-top

   Synonym: sciúlán

Declension

Mutation

References

• "bibe" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “bibe” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “bibe” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Latin

Verb

bibe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of bib?

Masbatenyo

Noun

bibe

1. duckling

Portuguese

Noun

bibe m (plural bibes)

1. bib (item of clothing for babies)

   Synonym: babador

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• bibi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi.be/

Noun

bibe

1. duck

Related terms

• pato

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?b, IPA^(key): /b?b/

  Homophone: bib

  Rhymes: -?b

Noun

bibb (plural bibbs)

1. A bibcock.